About us:
How did Web Summit become, in the words of Forbes, “the best tech conference on the planet”? Meaningful connections. Our tech events are unmissable because we make it easier for the right people to meet and connect. Everyone at Web Summit works towards this goal.

And we’re just getting started.

We’re always looking to build on the impact we have already made at Web Summit. In the coming years we’ll take Web Summit to new markets, promoting global connectivity, highlighting important issues and connecting global leaders - all while making a positive impact on the environment and communities we encounter.

To build a better company, we have to better ourselves. We do that by finding the most ambitious people to work with us.

About the team:
Web Summit Engineering consists of several cross-functional teams, working on tools and systems that help our attendees maximise their conference experience and power our events.

What you’ll achieve at Web Summit:

  • You’ll influence the architecture and development direction of the Applications/Product teams to ensure quality code is written and excellent products are built.
  • You’ll work across the software stack to deliver high-quality, maintainable and scalable code that can power the best conferences in the world.
  • You’ll share knowledge with other team members via mentoring, code reviews, technical talks, or consulting on projects.

Skills and abilities we’re looking for:

  • Ability to understand large, complex distributed systems with many moving, interrelated parts.
  • Java is your language! But you also like to work with other OOP languages like Ruby, Kotlin, Go
  • We use a services architecture, with existing RESTful Apis in Ruby.
  • Linux and Postgres experience ideal.
  • Experience with AWS preferable.
  • Strong SDLC principles, TDD and CI/CD understanding.
  • DevOps experience is a big plus.
  • Comfortable working in Scrum/Kanban environment, with Git Pull/code reviews.

Perks and benefits:

  • Hybrid working model benefit open to all employees.
  • Fully subsidised healthcare, dental, employee assistance programme(EAP) and more.
  • A dedicated in house L&D department, with access to workshops, online learning and resources to help you excel in your career development.
  • Company laptop, generous annual leave and flexible working arrangements.
  • Our very own “Tramway team” who drive community and morale boosting events for employees to participate in.
  • Annual company get togethers, company charity days and monthly wellbeing talks.

**At Web Summit, we embrace diversity and inclusion. We want talent from all walks of life to help us on our journey to digitise the conference sector. Hiring decisions are made purely on experience, skills and the needs of the business.